While the final game includes special animals from all five kingdoms with universal food costs and be available at Christmas, here’s how you make a basic prototype test deck:

Take any two (or more) beginner decks, remove all objects, and then combine the remaining cards into one deck at a 3:2 ratio of animals to food. (With two decks, you’ll probably end up with a 60 card deck, which is enough for two players. For every 20 additional cards at this ratio in your final deck, you can add an extra player, so 80 cards for 3 players and 100 cards for 4 players.)

Each player gets 8 cards and gameplay rules are the same as regular wild wars with the following exceptions:

1) Play all animals as though they had universal food costs.

2) Although everyone has a personal boneyard, deal the cards from a communal deck.